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Dream Defenders new Vest or Vote ad campaign
http://dreamdefenders.org/vest/New Ad: Vote Or Buy A Bulletproof Vest For Sons
A get-out-the-vote ad by a Florida-based group is part of its new “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is rallying voters around police violence against black boys.
posted on Oct. 14, 2014, at 4:06 p.m.
Darren Sands BuzzFeed Staff
It’s part of the Dream Defenders’ “Vest or Vote” campaign, which organizers say is meant to relay dramatic irony around the urgency of voting in this year’s midterm elections. Dream Defenders accepts grants from individual donors; a crowd funding campaign on IndieGogo recently raised $22,000. It is based in Florida with ten chapters, mostly on college campuses, including Florida State, Florida A&M and Florida Atlantic.
Phillip Agnew, the executive director of the Florida-based group, is also a paid organizer for the SEIU.
A spokesman said the campaign also has a billboard in Tallahassee, as well as a digital ad [shown below] on the Dream Defenders’ website which parodies an online sale for bulletproof vests.
“It’s what we call exaggerated reality,” said Steve Pargett, communications director for Dream Defenders. “But here in Florida, it really is the way that mothers are thinking. Mothers are scared for their children. And young people don’t feel as safe as they did before Trayvon Martin was killed. It’s a reality for people living here.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/darrensands/new-ad-vote-or-buy-a-bulletproof-vest-for-sons#2lcy6wi
A get-out-the-vote ad by a Florida-based group is part of its new “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is rallying voters around police violence against black boys.
posted on Oct. 14, 2014, at 4:06 p.m.
Darren Sands BuzzFeed Staff
It’s part of the Dream Defenders’ “Vest or Vote” campaign, which organizers say is meant to relay dramatic irony around the urgency of voting in this year’s midterm elections. Dream Defenders accepts grants from individual donors; a crowd funding campaign on IndieGogo recently raised $22,000. It is based in Florida with ten chapters, mostly on college campuses, including Florida State, Florida A&M and Florida Atlantic.
Phillip Agnew, the executive director of the Florida-based group, is also a paid organizer for the SEIU.
A spokesman said the campaign also has a billboard in Tallahassee, as well as a digital ad [shown below] on the Dream Defenders’ website which parodies an online sale for bulletproof vests.
“It’s what we call exaggerated reality,” said Steve Pargett, communications director for Dream Defenders. “But here in Florida, it really is the way that mothers are thinking. Mothers are scared for their children. And young people don’t feel as safe as they did before Trayvon Martin was killed. It’s a reality for people living here.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/darrensands/new-ad-vote-or-buy-a-bulletproof-vest-for-sons#2lcy6wi
Next time I go into town, I'll take a picture of the billboard.
ETA - Local TV coverage of the billboard:
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http://www.wtxl.com/news/dream-defenders-launch-voting-campaign-with-shocking-billboard/article_20c47c3a-541b-11e4-aa17-0017a43b2370.html
